Haim Karol Spothaim was born in Herza, Romania, 1912 to Tevil and Rivka. He was a clerk and married to Fani. Prior to WWII he lived in Chernowitz, Romania. During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Haim Karol was killed in military service in WWII.
Among the Jewish soldiers killed in WWII, especially in the Red Army, tens of thousands were singled out and murdered as Jews while in captivity as prisoners of war.